[HERDSA]: The Weekly News on Wed 26th Oct 2011

[Roger Landbeck]

Dear List Members

This week we have:

	Reminder of HERDSA NZ AGM Thurs 24th Nov 2011

	New Zealand Curriculum Design Institute: Invitation to make Contact.

	Forthcoming Conference

	News from Higher Education




To all HERDSA NZ members:

The 2011 Annual General Meeting of the HERDSA NZ branch will be held on:

Thursday 24 November 2011 at 4.30 – 5.30pm

The venue is video-conference on the Access Grid - as per the usual format for branch meetings.  For the location of your closest Access Grid venue please see http://avcc.karen.net.nz/endpoint-directory-list  (NOTE: individual members must please contact the local access grid contact as identified in the directory list to ensure that the venue is available at that time)

For members attending the TERNZ conference the details of the local venue at VUW will posted during the conference.

The agenda for the meeting, minutes of the 2010 AGM, and call for nominations for the 2012 committee are available at http://bit.ly/roNSoa 

Stanley Frielick PhD
Secretary: HERDSA NZ
http://www.herdsa.org.nz 


New Zealand Curriculum Design Institute
Invitation to make Contact:
The New Zealand Curriculum Design Institute is currently developing an Asian Pacific regional database of educators and researchers with a specialist interest in higher education curriculum design and will be holding a conference in this area in Hamilton New Zealand on the 4 to 6th December 2012.

We are very keen to make contact with people with a similar passion.
at nzcdinstitute at gmail.com

Warm regards
 
Susan F. Stevenson (nee Graham)
 
Chief Executive Director
Email: nzcdinstitute at gmail.com
Website: www. houseofmontrose.co.nz


FORTHCOMING CONFERENCE

Independent Learning Association Conference 2012
Thursday 30 August - Sunday 2 September 2012
Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
www.ila.net.nz

5th International Independent Learning Association Conference 2012
Sponsored by Victoria University of Wellington
 
Call for Papers Reminder
The Conference Committee welcomes proposals for workshops, papers, colloquia, learning fair, swap shop, and poster sessions.

The Call for Papers deadline for submissions is less than one month away.  Get your submission in quickly to help shape the conference programme!
For full details and to begin the submission process, visit the conference website.
The deadline is 4 November 2011.

Conference Convenors

Averil Coxhead
Senior Lecturer
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
Victoria University of Wellington

Edith Paillat
Language Technology Specialist
Language Learning Centre
Victoria University of Wellington

Contact us
For further details about ILAC 2012, please contact the Conference Organisers Paardekooper & Associates:
Email: ila at paardekooper.co.nz
Web: www.ila.net.nz



NEWS FROM HIGHER EDUCATION


AUSTRALIA: Universities join border control 
For the first time universities will learn the immigration track record of their overseas students, writes Bernard Lane for The Australian. “This will give providers a much better sense than they currently have of the integrity of the students they recruit,” said senior immigration official Kruno Kukoc.
More on the University World News site
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20111021214528300
NOTE: The full report is available on the Australian site but as from Monday 24th October the paper redesigned its site, which requires subscribers to login to get the full story. A 3-month free trial is available.


CANADA: Social media on campus and its discontents
How do you police social media on campus? asks MARTIN HAND in the latest edition of the Canadian journal Academic Matters. As social media becomes more ubiquitous, there is little point in adopting a reactionary approach. It is better to work through problems as and when they arise.
Full report on the University World News site
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20111021215650409


BRAZIL: Teaching assistants deliver mutual benefits
Brazil’s University of Campinas has been running an innovative peer-to-peer teaching assistant programme that trains students to teach and provides them with financial rewards as well as raising the standards of under-achieving students, say MARCELO KNOBEL and EUCLIDES MESQUITA NETO.
Full report on the University World News site
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20111021215417437



Roger Landbeck
List Moderator